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"It all got pretty mental soon after though. The reward at the end - our beautiful baby girl, Hanorah Burke. All going great today and what an incredible experience. Never going to complain of aches, pains or the man flu again!"

Former Fair City star Aoibhin was never worried about giving birth and it was something that she put to the back of her mind, RSVP Live reports .

In fact, she had never been in a maternity ward until she began filming a pilot show for RTE.

Aoibhin Garrihy with husband John Burke arriving on the red carpet for the IFTA Gala Television Awards at the RDS, Dublin (Image: Michael Chester)

Aoibhin Garrihy and John Burke

Ahead of the birth, she told RSVP Magazine: "I’ve just been enjoying all that’s been going on over the past few months and the actual labour itself is something that I decided not to hone in on.

"And then I was working a pilot project for the RTE Player a few weeks ago and we were filming and for the very first time in my entire life, I was in a hospital. Would you believe, I’ve never had reason to be in one before! I’ve just never set foot in a ward before.

Aoibhin Garrihy (Image: Instagram)

"And then all of a sudden we were in filming in the maternity ward in Holles Street and we met lovely midwives there who we were interviewing and finding out all the hacks and what to expect and it all became really real and yeah, even just being there in that environment, it made me think ‘Oh my God, this is actually going to be happening in a few months time!